Pinkney

Last seen for boys in 1958 at #3,559

Peak · boys
1891 · 13 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
531
since 1880

Pinkney over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Pinkney has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201887peak #497, 1891boys
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1958#3,5596
1957#3,9935
1956#3,2167
1955#3,8865
1954#3,8275
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1951#3,0667
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1949#3,2986
1948#2,6089
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1945#2,9966
1944#3,1096
1943#2,40510
1942#3,5605
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1940#3,1306
1939#3,1136
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1937#2,19711
1936#2,6298
1935#3,2526
1934#2,9737
1933#3,0047
1932#1,84816
1931#2,00314
1930#4,0015
1929#3,2477
1928#2,8439
1927#2,29813
1926#2,72510
1925#2,01216
1924#2,22914
1923#2,22414
1922#2,80110
1921#2,63211
1920#2,33613
1919#2,8779
1918#2,69910
1917#2,09114
1916#1,77117
1915#2,31011
1914#2,10110
1913#1,58012
1912#2,0457
1911#1,5376
1910#1,04510
1909#1,2776
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1907#1,3455
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1903#1,0096
1902#1,0136
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1900#9029
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1898#66311
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1896#9007
1895#8727
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1893#1,0355
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1891#49713
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1889#7897
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1887#58310
1886#8456
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1884#7018
1883#6449
1882#57611
1881#5959
1880#60010
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Pinkney was already there! It came in at #600, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1885, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Pinkney is popular in 1887

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Pinkney
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1958
  • Biggest jump: 262 spots in 1887 (#845 → #583)
  • Biggest drop: 68 spots in 1883 (#576 → #644)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1891 at #497 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1892, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1880–1884
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,784
  • Highest: 1 in 7,784 boys born in 1891 were named Pinkney (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,735 boys born in 1958 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 22.0% of all boys named Pinkney (117) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s70#576 (1882)#667
1890s43#497 (1891)#793
1900s32#902 (1900)#1,109
1910s106#1,045 (1910)#2,006
1920s117#2,012 (1925)#2,535
1930s80#1,848 (1932)#2,780
1940s48#2,405 (1943)#3,015
1950s35#3,066 (1951)#3,591

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Pinkney in 1887

boys
#583
10 births · 1 in 10,141 boys

Top boys' names in 1887

  1. #1John8,110
  2. #2William7,470
  3. #3James4,767
  4. #4George4,284
  5. #5Charles4,031
  6. #6Frank2,883
  7. #7Joseph2,456
  8. #8Henry2,228
  9. #9Thomas2,151
  10. #10Edward2,125
  11. #10Robert2,125
  12. #583Pinkney10
More about 1887

boys

101,410 boys got a published name in 1887; 1 in 10,141 of them was named Pinkney, which outranked 45.4% of the 1,067 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Pinkney
  1. #544Wash11
  2. #544Webster11
  3. #544Wyatt11
  4. #583Pinkney10
  5. #583Alice10
  6. #583Alma10
  7. #583Alonza10
  8. #631Alford9
  9. #631Archer9
  10. #631Armand9

Tied with 47 names at #583; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1886
Risers
  1. ↑ 539Carey#959 → #420
  2. ↑ 521Santiago#959 → #438
  3. ↑ 471Annie#959 → #488
  4. ↑ 471Roderick#959 → #488
  5. ↑ 453Morton#845 → #392
Fallers
  1. ↓ 430Dell#491 → #921
  2. ↓ 420Hardy#332 → #752
  3. ↓ 409Brady#512 → #921
  4. ↓ 381Walton#540 → #921
  5. ↓ 368Milford#451 → #819

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1887 →